Extra, Extra!
Whenever I get bored with a movie or television show, I start looking at the extras. I try and keep track of how many times an extra walks into the scene. Sometimes, the first walk they'll be alone, then maybe they'll be with someone the next time. I get annoyed with CSI, any CSI, as the mc's talk while people walk in the background with clipboards trying to look important, as if they are on a mission, although they just wander back and forth. I always wonder what extras talk about when they are sitting behind the action? AI says they repeat, "Peas and carrots." I'm going to remember that. I heard they are told not to be animated and try to act naturally. I recently saw a story about the infamous scene in Modern Family where an extra , a woman was sitting by herself, but was pretending to talk to an invisible entity. And who can forget the scene in, 'North by Northwest,' in the lodge where Eva Marie Saint shoots Cary Grant? A boy covers his ears sec...